>John, Kevin and Group,
> I know most on this list agree..
> What difference does it make if we start from books & go to
>experience, or start with experience and go to books? The main point is we
>know where we want to go, and either way we'll get there.
Valid observation. It's a constant circle. Part of my job involves
designing routers and protocol implementation, so I can't have had
experience on something that doesn't yet exist. A deep knowledge of
real theory -- in the computer science sense, not just message
formats and the like -- is what I have to fall back on.
But experience is a factor. When I started working with the
Stratacom/Cisco switches, I wasn't dependent only on the courseware
-- I knew what the things were supposed to do, so I started looking
for features and commands I knew had to be there.
> Does anyone on list know the story of blue crabs in a bucket? No
>matter how many crabs try to escape, they always get pulled back down by a
>crab below them. No crab ever gets away, and no lid is ever used. So if
>somebody finds fault with your path, your way, remember those blue crabs.
>They're really yummy.
I have to share one vaguely on-topic story from my days teaching with
Geotrain. Training partners have lots of work to do shipping around
the portable labs, and they often have a couple of freight
specialists on staff. It's especially bad if the equipment has
traveled internationally. We had our freight person go to
Baltimore-Washington Airport, in the Delta air freight area, to help
get our equipment out of Customs during a Customs crackdown.
Apparently, there was one shipment ahead of ours in the inspector's
queue: a shipment of live crabs. They were in what essentially was a
cage -- a series of pans with chicken wire around them. Not
satisfied with poking through the wire, the inspector insisted on
having a cage opened.
For whatever reason, loosening a particular wire caused an entire
stack of cages to fall apart. The standard crab protocol of pulling
back escapers doesn't apply when all of the crabs are on the floor.
Crabs to the left of them. Crabs to the right of them. Crabs running
away. Crabs running at the inspectors, the air freight staff, our
freight specialist, etc. Customs inspector losing it completely and
screaming "STOP THEM! THEY MIGHT BE CARRYING DRUGS!"
The warehouse smelled of crabs for several weeks, and it did take a
while to air out that particular portable lab...its aroma led to some
strange student reviews.
>
>live well, smile lots,
>- susan
>lab scheduled for Jan. 10/11, 2002 RTC
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